I want to implement timer in my asp.net web page.The timer should be
visible to the user as each second ticks.I have used Javascript Timer but when load is more the timer fails.

The timer code which i have used is as follows:
 function det_time()
         {

            var mins;
            var sec,sec1;
            mins = Math.floor(secs/60);
            sec = secs - mins*(60);
            if (sec < 10)
                {
                    sec = "0"+sec;
                }
            if (mins < 10)
                {
                    mins="0"+mins;
                }
            window.document.Form2.hidMin.value = "a";
            window.document.Form2.my_time.value = "00:" +mins + ":" + sec;

        }

            setInterval("det_time()", 1000);
                var cnt = 0;
                var secs;
                var cl;


                var timerID = null;
                var timerRunning = false;
                var delay = 1000;

           function InitializeTimer()
            {
                         secs = window.document.Form2.hidTime.value;

              StartTheTimer();


            }
          function StopTheClock()
           {

               if(timerRunning);
               clearTimeout(timerID);
               timerRunning = false;
            }
          function StartTheTimer()
           {


           if (secs==0)
            {

                StopTheClock();

               window.document.Form2.hidMin.value = "Auto";

             window.document.Form2.submit();
              }

            else
              {
                self.status = secs;
                secs = secs - 1;
                timerRunning = false;
               timerID = self.setTimeout(" StartTheTimer()", delay);
              }
           }

This i have called in page load.
I have declared 2 hidden inputs as follows:

<INPUT id="hidTime" style="Z-INDEX: 102; LEFT: 116px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 384px" type="hidden"
                            name="hidTime" runat="server">
<INPUT id="hidMin" style="Z-INDEX: 103; LEFT: 587px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 366px" type="hidden"
                            name="hidMin" runat="server">

Is there any better option to implement a timer in asp.net(VB)?




Malabika

You cannot implement it with .NET codebehind. This would cause the timer to run on the server, not the client. You need to do it on the client as you have. If you are having a javascript problem, post your code in there.

Thanks for quick response.
Actually the javascript timer is working perfectly fine for most of the cases.Out of 3600 people who attended the contest where i implemented this timer around 500 people faced the problem that the page is getting refreshed again and again.So i was searching for a better client side method to do this.I can post the entire code if you want both aspx and aspx.vb page.

Malabika